Sunday, March 23, 2008

From Dictionary.com

Word of the Day for Saturday, March 22, 2008

remunerate \rih-MYOO-nuh-rate\, transitive verb:

1. To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, or expense; to recompense.

2. To compensate for; to make payment for.

Not to suggest that our bosses remunerateus for our high moral standards, but creative bureaucrats at Mesa CityHall have invented a new fund from tax revenue that sets up a $20,000account for each virtuous City Council member. -- Art Thomason, "Mesa Puts Quite a Price on Discretion", Arizona Republic, May 18, 2000

The plaintiff could therefore only recover payment for herservices if there was evidence of an implied or express contract by thebusiness of which he was a partner (or by the plaintiff personally) to remunerate her for the work which she had done. -- Kate O'Hanlon, "No damages for wife's gratuitous work", Independent, May 27, 1999

[The firm] wanted to meet long-term investment requirements out of retained profits and also to be able to properly remunerate all the staff and give them a share of the profits. -- Roger Trapp, "Legal firms 'go offshore' to avoid litigation", Independent, May 2, 1996